StrangeSox

Officials have talked to the travel agents who booked the tickets for the two guys with the stolen passports. They said that they didn't specifically request this flight, and that it was booked because it was the cheapest way to their destinations. I'm betting at this point that these guys just happened to be on this flight and had fake passports for immigration or local warrant reasons.

if you were writing "does not equal" out on paper, you'd draw an equal sign with a slash through it that would look like "=/="

QUOTE (NorthSideSox72 @ Mar 10, 2014 -> 09:00 AM) I think people are underestimating how hard it is to find aircraft debris in an immense stretch of ocean. If the plane did break up badly in middair, the pieces are so small, you need to fly pretty low to spot them. Flying low also means you have to take a LOT of time to sweep an area of thousands of square miles. It took five days to find initial wreckage from Air France 447 and over two years to find the black boxes.

my wife passes a golf course on her way to work where they've been plowing up tons of snow. When things started melting earlier this week, a deer carcass started to emerge from the huge pile of snow.

Gawker has some more:

According to wiki, under the 1992 constitution Crimea was still part of Ukraine. There was a new constitution ratified in 1998 and I don't know what the differences are, but Crimea has been an autonomous republic with its own government since 1992. The second option is a reestablishment of the 1990's structure, so I don't really see it as a "join later" option unless the 1992 Constitution gives Crimea the right to declare independence from Ukraine or something.

That's not exactly what I heard. The story on the radio said the options would be either become part of Russia, or remain part of Ukraine but with greater autonomy. I'm not exactly sure what the greater autonomy would mean, though.

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 7, 2014 -> 02:11 PM) The point is there are many options, and in the end college is optional, not mandatory. Me and you both have no idea what she is eligible for, has applied for, been denied. All we know right now is this girl is saying that her parents owe her college tuition. To that, I disagree yeah she already lost round one and I don't see this ever gaining any real traction. edit: I did say this back on page 2: QUOTE (StrangeSox @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 11:01 AM) That said, at least what's been reported about this story makes this girl look like a giant baby.

Crimean MPs vote to become part of Russia, referendum to be held in 10 days. http://www.euronews.com/2014/03/06/crimean...part-of-russia/

QUOTE (KyYlE23 @ Mar 7, 2014 -> 02:05 PM) The way I look at it is that she is no longer a minor under their guardianship. Unless they signed some sort of contract guaranteeing that they will pay for her schooling past high school, then they dont owe it to her. I have no idea why they chose not to pay for it, if they are not financially able to do so or if they had a falling out, but she has many options to get her schooling paid for through grants and loans. IIRC your parents' income counts against you when trying to get student loans up until age 25, so she does sort of get f***ed over in that sense. Her parents won't be paying but, because of her parents' income/wealth, she won't be eligible for subsidized loans and grants. One of my parents' friends did something similar with their daughter, or at least the father did. He makes good money ($150k+), she got straight-A's through every step of school, but he refused to pay one penny because his parents didn't pay for his. So instead his wife got a full-time job just to pay for their daughter's school. And it's not like she went to Harvard unsubsidized or something, she went to ISU. edit: my wife's parents didn't pay for any of her school, either, but she had a decent inheritance from an uncle that passed in the 90's that covered most of it.

QUOTE (iamshack @ Mar 7, 2014 -> 01:53 PM) So do you think she has a right to do that? I guess that is what I am inferring from your post. No I already said before that this seems pretty dumb, but there was a lot of talk about how entitled kids are these days, how could they expect this? etc. but then oh by the way my parents paid tens of thousands of dollars for my tuition, room and board.

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QUOTE (nitetrain8601 @ Mar 2, 2014 -> 03:15 PM) I find it to be highly inaccurate, but maybe you'll have better luck. I actually just searched it two weeks ago when there was reports of flooding. It said the following week would be chilly, but then 40's and 50's average afterwards. That never happened. I don't think anyone can really forecast more than 10 days out with current models. Anything beyond that is going to mainly be based on historic averages with some influence from the next 10 days, e.g. Day 11 might be 80% historical average, 20% what Day 10 was.

QUOTE (bmags @ Mar 7, 2014 -> 10:34 AM) I help with admissions for my school. I still give money to Missouri as long as they continue taking their responsibility to educate the students across the state equally, through lower admission standards and scholarships. That may make it a "worse" ranked school but I think it's important. That said, I'm amazed how much better the median student is that applies, how much more extracurriculars they do, how much more course work they do. They may not have as many jobs but they are clearly busy. They seem to be well aware that they need a college education to survive. That wasn't the case 30 years ago. I had basically zero extra curriculars a little over ten years ago. Most high schools mandate some sort of community service at this point in order to graduate. Last spring, my wife was helping her dad review a few scholarship applications, and most of them came from the same high school we graduated from. Every one of these kids had at least three sports, clubs or activities they were involved with. Many of them had a pile of AP credit on top of that.

QUOTE (Y2HH @ Mar 7, 2014 -> 10:19 AM) They even tried it on mythbusters and couldn't get it to explode. Lead doesn't spark, regardless of what it strikes which is something Hollywood repeatedly gets wrong. Though, in the movie Heat, one of the more realistic gunfights in film, you'll note nothing they shot caused sparks. They use sparks so the viewer knows where they were firing, but in reality, that never occurs. And of course, related to gasoline...no spark = no flame = no explosions. An non-lead-core round (e.g. an AP round with a steel core) can cause a spark, and obviously an incendiary round could.

Maybe I'm missing something here, but it seems like at least several of the posters in this thread had some or all of their tuition, room and board covered by the parents but that they worked a part-time job for spending money. This girl is suing for her parents to pay for tuition.

FWIW you can find Reddy's posts from late 2012 and early 2013 in some filibuster threads talking about how red cross etc. were taking time for photo ops while the Occupy groups were actually helping people.

found this old thread: http://www.soxtalk.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=82426

Paul Ryan: Free School Lunch Means Poor Parents Don't Care About Kids Of course it turns out that the 'anecdote' that was central to his speech wasn't from some Scott Walker staffer but lifted from a book; also, it wasn't about government-subsidized lunches.

Anyone have any experience with the Bowflex or Powerblock weight sets?

Everyone I know who's been to NO (parents, inlaws, friends, coworkers) has loved it.

QUOTE (SoxFan1 @ Mar 6, 2014 -> 11:12 PM) Yosemite Never been to any of the above as an adult. Thoughts? Hard to choose between that or Glacier as the most beautiful place I've ever been. We stayed at this place right outside the park.

I wonder how much you actually retain and comprehend that way. Depending on what you're reading, reading is more than just plowing through words to finish a plot. With some authors, how they're using language and the pacing is central to the novel. Authors like Faulkner would be completely ruined by this. I could imagine the best uses would be for reading through textbooks, history books, etc. But think about reading something like Game of Thrones--you're not going to have any time to pause and think about what Winterfell or The Wall actually looks like when you're flying through the story so fast.

RT news anchor criticizes Kremlin, Kremlin sends her to Crimea. Another anchor resigned live on air RT or Russia Today is a modern Pravda, the media arm of the Russian government.

Kids these days!!!! articles have been written by every generation since articles existed. edit: It's from last september but here's an article that goes over how empty the "kids these days are so spoiled!" complaints are, and how they're repeated by every generation. It turns out that 18-25 year olds are pretty reliably narcissistic and self-centered in every generation. Here's documentation of Time publishing essentially the same article every decade since at least the 70's. That said, at least what's been reported about this story makes this girl look like a giant baby.